Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-15
EASTERN NEWS.
A Terrible SmaSh-uD on the Boston
and Providence Railroad.
TWrNrY.TRREE PERSONS KILLED OUT
RIGHT, AND MANY OTHERS WILL DIE.
The Accident Caused by the Giving Way
OF a Bridge.
| DARING ROBBERY OF A RAILROAD
OFFICE AT COLEMAN, TEXAS.
Extreme Quiet Marked the Burial 0
krs. Nssbe.
ESPECIAL TO THE sRHrrNKL.1
A Fatal Railroad Accident.

| ESPECIAL TO THE s~RHTrNKL.1
Fatal Railroad Accident.
BosToN, March 14.-An accident oc-
Cured this morning on the Dedham
| branch of the Boston & Providence
| railroad, between Forest Hill and Ros-
lindale, at what is known as the Bus
sey Park bridge. At 6 o'clock the
train from Dedham, consisting of seven
cars and a baggage car, under charge
of Conductor Tilden, broke. through
the bridge. The engine and three cars
went over safely, but the five others
| fell through the bridge to the road
| beneath, a distance OF 80 feet. The
| last car, which was the smoker, turned
| completely over and struck on the top
of the others, all being crushed almost
out of shape. The cause of the acct
| dent is said to have been the breaking
of the bridge.
Boston, March Alt is stated that
| the bridge where the accident occurred
| this morning is comparatively a new
one, and that the accident was caused
| by a truck on one of the cars giving
way, causing the car to strike against
an abutment of the bridge. The
smoking car, after it fell, caught fire,
but the fire department was promptly
on hand and prevented any spread OF
the flames. The bodies of the dead
have all been removed, and of the
wounded, some are at the hospital and
some have been taken home. Many
OF the injured were brought to the hos
pital in this city, and some of the
killed have not been identified. The
train was crowded with working peo-
pie, and the most intense excitement
prevails among their friends, anxious
to hear the names OF the killed and
wounded.
BosroN, March 14.-The police say
that % were killed outright, and nearly
as many others will die. A Webster
Clapp died in the Forest Hill station,
where he had been taken. The en-
gineer, when his engine broke from
the train, kept right on to Forest Hill
and gave the alarm instead of stopping
to ascertain the extent OF the accident.
On that account it was impossible to
get assistance at once The officers of
the road are present and are doing all
they can. Many doctors are there,
doing everything in their power. Su-
p~urintendent Folsom says he does not
know how many were killed or injured.
The bodies of the killed were horribly
mangled, some of their heads being
entirely severed from their bodies, and
many OF the bodies were crushed be-
yond recognition.
BosToN, March 14.-The scene of
this mornings accident is about a
mile from Jamaica Plains, where the
main line of the Boston and Providence
railroad branch off to the left to Read
vile and Providence, while to the
right runs a sweeping curve. The
Dedham branch of this arm is built
through a valley and an embankment
for a long distance, and a high n
south of the street run diagonally
under the track of this branch, and it
was into this cut that the cars of the
train plunged from the bridge which
crossed it. The last computation
shows 23 killed and 80 injured. The
revised list of deaths, so far ascer-
tanned, is as follows: Lizzie Walton,
IL years, Dedham; Myron Tilden,
Conductor Lizzie Vaudeville, Dedham /;
M. Taylor, policeman; Mrs. Ellis, of
West Roxbury; Ida Adams, 16 years,
of West Roseland; Ellis Burnett, 20
years, Roslindale; Edward Morris,
Dedham; George Metcalf, a~pothecary,
of Boston Mrs. Cardinal, Roslindale 4;
Charles Snow, of West Roxbury ;
Stephen Houghton, aged 38 years, of
Roslindale; W. Webster Clapp, of
West Roxbury; VIM. E. Snow, OF
West Roxbury; Frank Nichols, of
Dedham; H. Humphrey, of Dedham;
Miss Harkins, Dedham; Hannah
Murphy, West Roxbury H. F. john
son, Boston; Alice Vanderbilt, Ded-
ham; Harry Gay, Roxbury - Stone,
| of West Roxbury - Gates of Ros-
lindale, and Rich of Roslindale.
William S. Smith is reported as in
jured, and William E. Durham died at
the City Hospital, making q deaths
whose names are known. There are
at the morgue the bodies of three
men and two m which as yet re-
main unidentified.
BosroN, March 14.-The wrecked
train was the one which leaves Ded-
ham at 7 :O5, and arriving at Boston at
7:4O, and is one OF the largest and
heaviest on the morning list. This
morning, as usual, the train was
heavily loaded, and the last three cars,
the ones that left the track, were filled
with passengers, who had taken the
train at Dedham, and stations between
there and Forest Hill. The accident
was due to the giving away of the
bridge under the weight Of the train,
owing, doubtless, to some hidden fault
in the construction. The inspection Of
the wreck reveals the fact that eight
cars, comprising the train, are jumbled
into a complete wreck, not n Of the
coaches escaping almost perfect demo-